Ethiopian Livestock Feed (ELF) Project Inception Workshop

Addis Ababa, 21-22 February 2012

Workshop venue: ILRI Infocentre

The workshop objectives are to:

• Review briefly Ethiopia’s livestock value chains and their feed resources
• Review the approaches, methods and tools (FEAST, Techfit, VCA, etc) required to deliver the assessments of feed resources and value chains;
• Agree roles, responsibilities and the timetable for the implementation of the study; and,
• Develop a communications strategy to ensure that the outputs of the study best reach their different audiences

Day 1

Time	Topic	Responsible
08.30	Registration
09.00	Welcome remarks - representative of the Ministry	Peter
09:30	Introduction to the project presentation	Alan
10:00	Overview of Ethiopia feed sector presentation	Adugna
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Introducing and discussing the tools: FEAST, Techfit, Value chain analysis Introducing Techfit and Feast tools Introducing value chain analysis - presentation	Peter
12:00	Site presentations Dairy in Sululta.ppt Details Download 3 MB Sheep in Menz.ppt Details Download 161 KB	Peter
13:00	Lunch
14:00	Site selection - criteria and locations	Bill
15:15	Tea/coffee
15:45	Communications strategy - who to reach? and how to reach them?	Peter
16:45	Reporting back and Day 1 wrap up.	Alan
17:00	Close

Day 2

Time	Topic	Responsible
08:30	Reflection on Day 1	Peter
09:00	Site selection - finalize site selection	Alan
10:00	Tea/Coffee
10:30	Review of project tasks and deliverables and milestone dates work programme outputs and activities partners and key contacts	Bill
12:30	Lunch
13:30	Plenary agreement of workplans and timetables
15:00	Tea/coffee
15:30	Next steps, roles and responsibilities, expectations, financial arrangements
16:30	Wrap up
17:00	Close